1904. ] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 23 
NEOSERICA OBESA, Péring., 
Trans. S. Afr. Philos. Soc., vol. vi., 1892, p. 35. 
Female : Chestnut-red, with only a slight fleshy tinge and a very 
faint metallic sheen; clypeus very roughly, although not deeply 
punctured, anterior margin very slightly sinuate but not angular 
in the centre, the clypeal arcuate suture is almost obliterated, and 
the punctures on the frontal part are shallow but somewhat closely 
set ; prothorax of the usual shape and sculpture but with the sides 
fringed with somewhat long hairs; scutellum very closely punctu- 
late; elytra elongated, but somewhat ampliated laterally in the 
posterior part, and plainly convex there, sub-costulate in the 
anterior part only, punctato-striate, the interstices are plainly and 
somewhat closely punctured, and there are on each side six rows 
of somewhat remote, very small whitish hairs; coxze and meta- 
sternum deeply punctured, and with a plain metallic sheen, the 
hind margin of the former is straight; the club of the antenne 
is flavescent. 
This species is much more deeply punctured than the same sex 
of both N. carneola and N. natalensis, and the prothorax is more 
strongly attenuated laterally in the anterior part. 
Length 10 mm.; width 6 mm. 
Hab. Ovampoland. 
ETISERICA, n. gen. 
Mentum of Awto- and Neo-serica; clypeus more obliquely narrowed 
towards the anterior, truncate, and not much reflexed part ; antenne 
of male 10-jointed, the seventh antennal joint laminate, but very 
short; elytra elongated, deeply striate; anterior tibiz plainly tri- 
dentate; claws normally cleft, but the inner one is very slightly 
wider than the outer; anterior tarsi somewhat short, the inter- 
mediate and posterior long, the basal joint of hind tarsi is as long 
as the second, upper hind spur as long as the basal joint; lower 
margin of hind coxe straight; hind femora and tibiz moderately 
broadened inwardly. 
This genus differs from Stenoserica by the more acuminate clypeus 
which is not unlike that of a Trochalid but is not aculeate in the 
centre of the anterior margin, the much more oblique gen, and the 
absence of hairs along the outer margin of prothorax and elytra, and 
also on the pectus. 
